DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

Coffee is served before breakfast and yoga each morning. Sweeten with honey and Gertrud's rich coffee cream (plain or spiced)

Herbal teas

Please help yourself to teas throughout the day in the main kitchen

Fermented gram-flour pan cakes

These are our speciality and we have them either savoury or sweet. We recommend not over eating but if you need more sustenance than is on offer, please do not hesitate to ask and we can quickly whip you up one of our pancakes

Food on the retreat is prepared by Gertrud and her team. She considers it an artform. The delicious creations please the eye and quickly re-balance the digestion.

The food is vegan, sugar and gluten free, much of it raw, some of it cooked. Gertrud’s flavours are inspired by Asia, Africa and Europe. She is best known for her raw breakfasts and seriously decadent raw deserts.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

Wisdom or duplicity, healing or death, transformation and a powerful symbol of the energy behind the material universe (the feminine): the Snake has literally been by my side, since the start of last year.

Mangalo holding a snake last year, and images of the 3 types of snakes that came to meet me on my Driveabout this week, ahead of the 2016 retreat season.

It reasserted its presence strongly on my recent Driveabout through the lands South and West of Jervis Bay, an area managed jointly with the descendants of the local Aboriginal tribe.

Last year, on the way to collecting Mangalo from the airport for our first retreat, I passed 5 or 6 snakes! I drive these roads a lot, NEVER see snakes. On our way back, we saw a further 2. We stopped to check one, alas it was dead. Indeed, all of the snakes I had seen, bar 1, had been.

Throughout the season, snakes seemed somehow present in varying forms - never clear if they were the positive or negative aspect at the time, likely both. One thing is clear though, and in hindsight, it has been a very powerful, transformative year for me, if not always easy.

Currently in Australia, I decided to go on a short Driveabout - to reflect and focus for the retreat season ahead.

Jervis Bay is stunning, turquoise waters, white sandy beaches, ancient Eucalyptus forests, and a style of management in the National Park which seems to preserve the sacred energies of the land.

I loved it. I reflected on last year's challenges. How each retreat brought transformation not just for the retreatants, but for us also. Remembering the snakes, I wondered under which symbol this year's retreat season might unfold.

Although this had been on my mind for a couple of days, it was not so specifically at the moment when I was walking back from the beach that night. Dusk had set in, the sun was on her way to France, the thinnest slice of the New Moon was just coming up.

When I saw, on my left, coming onto the path a Black Snake. It had come to a halt, relaxed, looking at me, from 2 meters away. I passed carefully, being observed by it. Later, I regretted not having the courage to stop, and take a photo, see or hear what message, if any, the snake had for me.

Next day, as I was driving away from Jervis Bay, again, I saw a snake. Striking, alive and utterly beautiful, on my left, looking at me driving past, waiting on the hard shoulder. This snake's position exactly the same as that of the snake the night before. The snake's belly glistened in a most beautiful reddish orange colour - a Red Bellied Black Snake. Again, I didn't stop to engage with it. I was vaguely disappointed in myself.

Only 15 minutes or so later, another snake, on my left, sunning herself on the side of the road, this time a Brown Snake.

That's when I realised, that the Snake continues to be present for what will unfold this year. I understood that the energy this year will even be stronger, the snakes were fully alive, and aware.

A path has opened clearly. My practice has unfolded into something strong, something alive and something very real.

And with it, this year's retreat format has evolved: movement, breath, noble silence, sound and visualisations are all tools that help us reach inside. The practice engages body and soul into a powerful daily dance, nourishing and re-connecting us. Intuitive wisdom flourishes and gives access to a path on which we digest and integrate our fragmented selves.

If you would like to join my practice, you can check dates for this year on the link below.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.

"What you are doing at Yobaba Lounge is totally unique. I have been to many retreats over the years. None touch the depth and transformative energy that arose during my retreat with you. This has changed my life." Julie, retreatant

We have just completed a deeply transformative retreat here at the Lounge. Food by Mel who has taken to the Yobaba Lounge food ethos like duck to water, pampering by Naela and guided practice sessions by Gertrud.

DISCLAIMER: Yobaba Lounge and or Gertrud Keazor do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physcial mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Yobaba Lounge's and or Gertrud Keazor's intention is to offer a variety of information and tools to help the reader and visitor in their quest for spiritual growth, emotional and physical well-being.